NUFORC Sighting 67036

Occurred: 2008-10-29 01:00 Local
Reported: 2008-11-20 18:55 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Diamond, OH, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

A color changing point of light in the sky turns out to be a whole lot more.

On the night of October 28th, 2008, I arrived home from work around midnight. I got out of my car and stood in the driveway as I took the last drags of a cigarette, gazing into the clear night sky as I often do. Looking in a southern direction, I noticed a point of light that seemed to be changing colors. The light would change from blue to green to red to yellow with no apparent pattern or timing to the change of color. As the color changes occurred, the point of light seemed to retain a brilliant white color throughout, seemingly intermeshed with the colors mentioned above. The color of the light struck me as quite peculiar, and I thought to myself jokingly, “what if it’s a UFO”, but because the light was stationary, and because I was skeptical of extra terrestrials, I finished my smoke and dismissed the light as a strange star or planet and headed inside for bed.

The following night (10/29/08) I arrived home at the same time and again looked for my strange light to the southern sky. The light was there but seemed closer than the night before. It loomed over my neighbor’s property along the wood-line, behind his cow pasture, approximately 300 yards from where I stood in my driveway. Separating the light and myself was (in order from me to the light) my front yard, the road, and the neighbors cow pasture that ends into the wood-line where the light occupied a space above. The night was relatively clear with the exception of a very small group of clouds that hung just above the strange light. Once again I brushed off the lights appearance and headed inside.

About an hour later I went back out to my driveway to have a smoke around 1 a.m. I again looked at the light but this time its position had noticeably changed. I was quite confused by the apparent change of the light’s position, but became dumbfounded when I watched it move with my own eyes. The light shot towards me with incredible speed, but maintained its previous altitude. I was shocked by the light’s ability to accelerate and stop so rapidly. The light was much closer now. It hung motionless in the sky above the road separating the neighbor’s property and my own, but not for long. As I watched, the light began to move in a circular motion in the sky followed by a square pattern. The light traveled the outline of an imaginary square in the sky, accelerating with great speed and stopping on a dime at each corner only to repeat the process until the square outline was complete. About that time I had seen enough to become thoroughly frightened. My heart raced as did my mind. I discarded the half smoked cigarette and ran inside making sure to lock the door behind me.

I watched the light from my bedroom window, noting its movement by looking at its relation to near by stars. It glided across the sky moving closer and then farther away and the closer, in no particular pattern and at slower speeds than before. I watched the light from my bedroom for approximately half an hour until I gathered enough courage to go outside for closer inspection with a pair of binoculars. Upon looking at the light I realized that it was not a single light but many. I can only describe it as a gyroscope. It was a series of three rings, arranged inside each other with the largest on the outside. Each ring had a series of lights around it, and each ring seemed to have its own distinct color; blue, red, and yellow. The rings were moving inside each other on multiple axes in no discernable pattern. I watch this self described gyroscope through the binoculars for about ten minutes until fear got the best of me. Back inside the house I watched the strange light. Around 2 a.m. two other lights approached the U.F.O. but passed it taking no notice. Judging by their speed and flight path, these two additional lights were jets of human making. I watched the U.F.O. until approximately 3:30 a.m., at which time I closed the blinds, took some night-time sleep aid medicine, and fell asleep fully convinced that the strange light outside my window was a U.F.O.

My opinion is changed. I am no longer a skeptic, but a full believer. My encounter with the U.F.O., in my small farming community of Palmyra, cannot fully be explained by words alone. I only wish I had a video camera to capture the spectacle (cell phone cameras don’t work very well). The feelings I felt that night are unexplainable. In my twenty odd years of existence I can’t remember another time in which I felt such fear; fear of the unknown and the feeling of being watched, closely watched, by someone or something I can’t explain. The most interesting sight in the whole experience was the gyroscope-like mechanism that composed the whole point of light. My best guess is that the gyroscope-like mechanism was an advanced propulsion system, but that’s just a guess. Overall, my encounter with that strange light was an eye opening and frightening experience that has forever changed my opinion of life and the universe.




NUFORC Note:

Venus and Jupiter were quite prominent in the southern sky, at this time. PD


Posted 2009-01-10

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